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Berry, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Berry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41003. It stands on Raven Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry quadrangle. 250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Berry within Harrison County

On record in Berry

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Berry fell from 310 to 250 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000310
2010264-46 (-15%)
2020250-14 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kentucky State Route 1032 Bridge, Spanning South Fork of Licking River, Berry, Harrison County, KY
Kentucky State Route 1032 Bridge, Spanning South Fork of Licking River, Berry, Harrison County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Berry between 2003 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 April 2009Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAVEN CREEK
18 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berry in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBerry$2,000no account filed
May 2022HailBerry-Three inch diameter hail was observed in the Berry community in northern Harrison County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBerry-A tree was down on State Road 1032 West.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBerry-A Harrison County law enforcement official reported trees down in the area from severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBerry-Trees were blown down.
April 2010HailBerry-The hail was covering the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBerry-Two trees were blown down on Berry Robinson Rd.
May 2003HailBerry-no account filed
November 2002HailBerry-no account filed
May 2000HailBerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Colemansville1.3 miles9
Boyd2.1 miles9
Robinson2.8 miles10
Kelat3.8 miles11
Renaker4.5 miles7
Garnett5.2 miles10
Breckinridge5.5 miles7
Antioch5.8 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975389The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 486911. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.